Many in Singapore do not understand what is going to hit them in the coming years. All the benefits that they have enjoyed the past 40-50 years from the tailwind of globalization, free trade, free movement of people, cheap money and financialization is reversing. The past 40-50 years were disadvantageous for commodity producers and manufacturers like #Malaysia and #Indonesia. The winds have changed and the next few decades will benefit resource rich countries at the expense of resource poor ones like Singapore. Add in deglobalization where there will be increasing restrictions on movement of goods, services, people and capital, it will be Singapore's turn to face headwinds and have to play defense. When the power shifts, existing suppliers and partners will find and create any reason and excuse to revoke old arrangements to renegotiate from a new position of strength
And the Singapore dollar? As I expect the USD and most indebted developed countries to debase and devalue significantly their currencies to inflate away their debt and rebalance their economies, the SGD will fall. By how much? Against the MYR, 2.0 would be a modest target.
This is not an attack against any country. The macro changes are way inevitable and beyond #Singapore's control. We all need to adapt and protect our wealth and reposition ourselves for what's to come.
The good news is that Trump and Musk now have to DEFEND THEMSELVES against accusations that they are harming Ukraine.
Remember, when Trump came to power, the old ape didn't just stop aid to Ukraine. He BRAGGED about no longer supplying Ukraine with weapons paid for by American taxpayers.
But times have changed. Ukraine has grown stronger, stabilized the front line, and expanded its LONG-RANGE strike capabilities. Meanwhile, Trump has grown weaker.
His unique talent for doing business in a way that makes everyone hate him has produced predictable consequences. The old ape is heading toward electoral defeat, and even his temporary allies understand that.
All those he humiliated at the height of his power are lining up to settle scores when he falls.
And now Trump can no longer afford to openly admit that he is harming Ukraine. Instead, Trump and Musk are SHIFTING BLAME onto each other over the alleged Starlink sabotage, while inventing excuses about Ukraine supposedly violating agreements.
The American public still supports Ukraine, and that support is not fading. On the contrary, it appears to be growing as this Great American Clusterf#ck and technofascist Musk continue their antics.
I understand how desperately they want to control the world and buy governments, just as Musk is accused of trying to buy influence over American elections.
But they will NOT get their way!
Thank you to the American people for your support!
Because of you, even the biggest devils on this planet cannot break us. They are being forced to back down.
I hope that in the elections, you choose people who will represent you with dignity and restore not America's greatness, but the respect of the entire world.
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
https://t.co/vNdTnIQ6KF
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at https://t.co/IwhafVWVM8 (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: https://t.co/S1IS8lXNbA
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: https://t.co/nclXELXcbd
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: https://t.co/CrVbwc9ZXk
[4] Texas v. Samsung: https://t.co/wFOUdeh1if
Ich hatte jetzt Zeit das komplett zu lesen. Elon hat sich mit den Geschehnissen und Äußerungen in den letzten Tagen heftig in die Nesseln gesetzt, die weitreichende Konsequenzen haben könnten.
„Der Ständige Untersuchungsausschuss (des US Senats) leitet eine Untersuchung zu den Beziehungen der US-Regierung zur Technologie von SpaceX – einschließlich der Satellitendienste von Starlink sowie Starshield – und deren Nutzung durch die Regierung ein.“
Klingt harmlos, ist es aber nicht.
Die Limitierungen von Starlink/Starshield in UA sind zwar der Auslöser für Untersuchungen sowohl durch den Senat als auch durch das House, aber hier geht es aus US Sicht um etwas viel Grösseres und Entscheidenderes:
War es in irgend einer Form möglich, dass eine Privatperson / privates Unternehmen selbst-entscheidend maßgeblich in die Nationalen Sicherheitsinteressen des USA oder ihre Außenpolitik einzugreifen?
Wenn es eine Sache gibt, wo US Senat und Congress überhaupt keinen Spaß verstehen, dann ist es genau das. Und zwar über alle politischen Lager hinweg. Die Demokraten mögen da aktuell zwar lauter sein als die Republikaner, das liegt aber daran, daß wir 10 Tage vor einer entscheidenden Wahl stehen, und dass die meisten Abgeordneten und Senatoren sich in ihren Wahlkreisen im Wahlkampf befinden. Und daß die Republikaner aktuell kein Interesse daran haben, daß das Thema öffentlich zu weit hoch kocht, weil es natürlich auch die Trump Admin betrifft, und ein möglicher Nationaler Sicherheitsskandal das Letzte ist, was sie jetzt gerade noch gebrauchen können.
Spannend wird es nach der Wahl, und zwar völlig unabhängig davon, wer die Mehrheit in House und Senat erlangt. Die meisten Congress Abgeordneten hatten bisher nicht die Zeit, sich aufgrund ihres vollen Wahlkampfkalenders mit dem Thema auseinanderzusetzen. Wenn nach der Wahl aber die Brisanz des Themas durchdringt, könnte das sehr ungemütlich für Musk, Space X und die Trump Admin werden.
Ich gehe weiterhin davon aus, daß die Entscheidung letztlich aus dem Pentagon und WH kam. Die Äußerungen von Elon in den letzten Tagen lassen daran aber zweifeln. Die Trump Admin hat zwar das Recht solche Entscheidungen grundsätzlich eigenständig zu fällen, sie ist aber auch verpflichtet den US Congress, zumindest bestimmte Gremien, über solche Entscheidungen im Vorfeld zu informieren.
Sowohl die UA Regierung, als auch die entscheidenden Stellen des US Congress und Senat wussten davon laut eigenen Aussagen aber nichts, und Trump tut so, als hätte er davon ebenfalls nichts gewusst. — Hier wird es jetzt spannend.
Wenn man genau hinsieht, deckt Musk offensichtlich aktuell Trump bei dem ganzen Thema. Durch seine ungeschickten öffentlichen Aussagen, die mehr Zweifel als Aufklärung in der Sache aufkommen lassen, wie es zu den Einschränkungen von Starlink /Starshield in UA kommen konnte, und wer dafür verantwortlich ist, gepaart von öffentlichen politischen emotionalen Meltdowns auf X, tut er sich keinen gefallen. Auch Aktionäre von Space X und andere Stake-Holder wie staatliche Kunden, insbesondere aus Europa und Asien haben da ein genaues Auge drauf.
Warum verhält sich Elon so? Laut aktuellen Zahlen hat er mehr als $442 Mio. in den aktuellen Wahlkampf der Reps in den USA investiert. Insb. in den Wahlkampf eines Rep. Kandidaten für den US Senat aus Texas. Das Rennen ist knapp. Für Musk und Space X hängt viel davon ab. Hier geht es um Expansion, Neu-Bau, Raketen Startgenehmigungen, Umweltauflagen, Freigabe von Gebieten als Bauland usw.
Wenn die Wahl entschieden ist, wird sich vieles ändern. Dann werden Musk und Trump gegenseitig mit dem Finger aufeinander zeigen, und jeder seine eigenen Interessen vertreten, die dann nicht mehr gleich liegen.
Sollte bei der Untersuchung herauskommen, dass Elon eigenständig gehandelt hat, dann wird er die volle Härte des US Congress zu spüren bekommen. Dann ist Schluss mit lustig. Wenn es in den USA um nationale Sicherheitsinteressen geht, hört der Spaß definitiv auf.
Antonio Gramsci entendeu o cristianismo melhor do que muitos cristãos. É isso que o torna perigoso e não os slogans que lhe atribuem.
Ele foi preso em 1926 e condenado a vinte anos, quatro meses e cinco dias. Escreveu trinta e três cadernos numa cela, entre 1929 e 1935, sob censura, num vocabulário cifrado onde marxismo virava filosofia da práxis e Lênin virava Ilitch.
A pergunta que o consumia era por que a revolução não vinha onde deveria vir. Venceu na Rússia agrária. Fracassou na Alemanha, na Hungria, na Itália.
Depois da morte dele, venceu na China camponesa, no Vietnã, em Cuba e em nenhuma sociedade ocidental madura.
Havia algo no Ocidente que repelia o golpe. A resposta dele foi que, atrás do Estado, existia uma linha de fortificações:
Escolas, imprensa, associações, famílias e, sobretudo, igrejas.
Marx tratou a religião como ópio, um sintoma a ser dissolvido. Gramsci tratou-a como fortificação, uma posição a ser tomada. Chamou isso de hegemonia:
O consentimento que se fabrica antes de qualquer voto, no terreno daquilo que as pessoas simplesmente consideram óbvio.
O camponês italiano não se revoltava não porque estivesse satisfeito, mas porque possuía uma ordem de sentido que explicava o mundo, a dor e a morte melhor do que qualquer panfleto. Enquanto essa ordem se transmitisse de pais para filhos, não havia revolução possível.
Logo, escreveu, a guerra decisiva é anterior à política e é travada dentro das instituições que formam a consciência.
Estudou a Igreja Católica com uma atenção que nenhum inimigo dela dedicou. Considerava-a a mais duradoura máquina de formação de consenso já construída e o que o fascinava era exatamente aquilo que os cristãos costumam achar banal: a capacidade de manter o teólogo e o camponês dentro da mesma fé, por séculos, sem que a estrutura se partisse.
Estudou a disciplina dos jesuítas como caso organizacional e concluiu que o partido precisava fazer o que a Igreja fazia: ser o Príncipe moderno, um organismo coletivo que não apenas dispute o poder, mas forme homens.
Um partido contra-Igreja, com ideologia própria e ocupando o lugar de Deus. Não é força de expressão:
Gramsci escreveu que o Príncipe moderno toma o lugar, nas consciências, da divindade ou do imperativo categórico, e se torna a base de uma laicização completa da vida e dos costumes.
O erro de quem o combate é tratá-lo como problema econômico. Não é. A filosofia da práxis, no vocabulário dele, é historicismo absoluto e mundanização absoluta do pensamento. Ou seja:
Não há ordem transcendente, não há natureza humana estável, não há lei natural, não há verdade que não seja filha da sua época. Tudo o que existe foi construído historicamente e, portanto, pode ser desconstruído.
O ataque não é ao lucro, é ao ser. Se nada é dado por Deus, então família, matrimônio, sexo e pessoa são arranjos negociáveis, e a revolução não precisa expropriar fábrica nenhuma: basta reeducar.
Em 1985, Ernesto Laclau e Chantal Mouffe pegaram a hegemonia gramsciana e trocaram explicitamente o proletariado por uma cadeia de demandas identitárias. Foi assim que a revolução de classe virou revolução de identidade, com o mesmo método e outro sujeito.
Augusto Del Noce viu ainda mais fundo. Para ele, o marxismo terminou como o grande servo do niilismo (posição de que não existe fundamento último, nem para a verdade, nem para o valor, nem para o sentido da vida) e seu fruto real foi a sociedade esvaziada da pergunta pelo sentido.
A revolução não veio de foice na mão. Veio como indiferença, como uma sociedade que não persegue a fé porque simplesmente já não consegue formulá-la.
— No Front Militar
"...손님, 그 모자 알고 쓰신 거예요?" 하고 한국어로 물었음 한국에서 일한 적 있는 분이었음
한신 타이거스 모자였음 오사카의 종교 같은 야구팀 그리고 그 도쿄 술집은 요미우리 자이언츠 팬들이 모이는 곳이었음 한신의 영원한 라이벌
오사카에서 3일 동안 받은 타코야키 맥주 하이파이브는 전부 "우리 팬이구나"였던 거임 나는 야구 룰도 모르는데
사장님이 설명해주고 가게 사람들한테 통역해줬음 "이 사람 모자가 귀여워서 산 거래요"
가게가 뒤집어졌음 아저씨들이 웃다가 나한테 자이언츠 모자를 하나 선물했음 "도쿄에선 이거 써"
그래서 지금 모자가 두 개임 오사카 갈 땐 호랑이 도쿄 갈 땐 자이언츠
근데 문제는 작년부터 야구를 보기 시작했는데 한신이 더 좋아짐 처음 모자가 호랑이였으니까
도쿄 술집 사장님한테 그 얘기 했더니 "배신자"라고 하면서 또 맥주를 사줌
Declassified 1945 Japan Food Sufficiency Map Created By The CIA
This is a U.S. intelligence or occupation-era map titled “Japan: Food Sufficiency”, produced in August 1945, just as World War II was ending.
The map analyzes how self-sufficient different prefectures of Japan were in producing food for their populations. It was likely created for American planners preparing for the occupation of Japan after the surrender.
The colors show food supply conditions by prefecture. Confusingly they are reversed from what you'd expect:
Green = food deficit areas
Yellow = adequate supply
Pink/red = surplus food production
The map reveals that heavily urbanized and industrial regions such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto had food shortages, while more rural farming areas produced surpluses.
This reflected a major wartime problem: Japan’s cities depended heavily on imported food and shipments from rural regions, but Allied naval blockades and bombing had disrupted transportation and trade.
The letters inside each prefecture identify major agricultural products:
R = rice
W = wheat
SB = soybeans
SP = sweet potatoes
F = fruits
and others such as barley, fish, vegetables, and dairy products.
Maps like this were extremely important to occupation planners because American authorities expected famine and social unrest after Japan’s surrender.
Understanding which regions could feed themselves, and which would require emergency imports, helped guide relief shipments, transportation planning, and occupation policy during the first months after the war.
More 1940s Declassified CIA Maps: https://t.co/hXVumnSZkX
Declassified 1945 Japan Food Sufficiency Map Created By The CIA
This is a U.S. intelligence or occupation-era map titled “Japan: Food Sufficiency”, produced in August 1945, just as World War II was ending.
The map analyzes how self-sufficient different prefectures of Japan were in producing food for their populations. It was likely created for American planners preparing for the occupation of Japan after the surrender.
The colors show food supply conditions by prefecture. Confusingly they are reversed from what you'd expect:
Green = food deficit areas
Yellow = adequate supply
Pink/red = surplus food production
The map reveals that heavily urbanized and industrial regions such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto had food shortages, while more rural farming areas produced surpluses.
This reflected a major wartime problem: Japan’s cities depended heavily on imported food and shipments from rural regions, but Allied naval blockades and bombing had disrupted transportation and trade.
The letters inside each prefecture identify major agricultural products:
R = rice
W = wheat
SB = soybeans
SP = sweet potatoes
F = fruits
and others such as barley, fish, vegetables, and dairy products.
Maps like this were extremely important to occupation planners because American authorities expected famine and social unrest after Japan’s surrender.
Understanding which regions could feed themselves, and which would require emergency imports, helped guide relief shipments, transportation planning, and occupation policy during the first months after the war.
More 1940s Declassified CIA Maps: https://t.co/hXVumnSZkX
That's because Japan is the only politically correct punching bag globally as it's the literal antiphysis of western liberal ideology.
A safe nation, a homogenous nation virtually crime free, clean, beautiful and orderly free from rape, feminism and trans bodily mutilation.
Being openly hostile and racist against the Japanese is celebrated and encouraged by the genetically inferior and the brainwashed who worship them.
Hence why virtue signalling retards continuously moan about the same five songs: diddy pedo island, Junko Furuta, anime being pedophilia, shutter sounds and female train cars.
It's literally all they have despite the fact actual statistics proclaim the opposite.
They will never argue in good faith, their entire worldview, ideology and even identity isn't grounded in reality so why would you expect them to be honest?
They detest you, they hate you, and yet at the same time they envy you and want everything your nation has and represents.
Specifically so they can rape and burn it to the ground as they've done across Europe, especially France.
Women report a higher level of happiness in Japan than men, has one of the lowest rates of sexual assault (at least before Indians, Pakis, Kurds, and other brown people started to come to Japan) globally.
Taking preventative measures to ensure the safety of working women (train cars are entirely optional) is just something western countries refuse to do. It's not even preventative, literally just quality of life for the sake of the people.
As western nations continue to defend and import more brown and black criminals openly who wont just rape you in the subway but will either stab you to death or burn you alive while you sleep.
This is constantly ignored by them because it's politically safe and encouraged to hate Japan because it's one of the last bastions of a high trust, civilized society.
And this context truly makes sense when you begin to realize the loudest voices who openly hate, instigate and project against Japan with botted posts are ethnically Cousinfuckistani or Rapericans.
It's also the reason why when you push back against their racism they instantly lash out and change the subject to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a means of saving face and acting innocent.
Because allowing Muslims and Africans into your country is far more devastating and destructive than any atomic weapon, they themselves are a biological weapon no nation can ever come back from.